The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss
Reductive genomic evolution, driven by genetic drift, is common in endosymbiotic bacteria. Genome reduction is less common in free-living organisms, but it has occurred in the numerically dominant open-ocean bacterioplankton Prochlorococcus and “Candidatus Pelagibacter,” and in these cases the reduc...
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| Format: | Online |
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American Society of Microbiology
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315703/ |